{"id":661272,"date":"2010-02-09T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21898"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:26:16","slug":"snapshots-from-a-decaying-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661272","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots from a Decaying Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blacksungazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1265176575829.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1923 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blacksungazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1265176575829.jpg?resize=297%2C212\" alt=\"1265176575829\" height=\"212\" width=\"297\" \/><\/a>From Nick P. at <a href=\"http:\/\/blacksungazette.com\/?p=1920\">Black Sun Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve looked at the news lately, but apparently we&#8217;re in some kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-us-fed-dudley,0,7540559.story\">economic recovery<\/a>. You&#8217;d probably have to be reading the news to know about it, because no one that I know is experiencing the effects, and <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/09\/a-new-norm-for-unemployment\/\">economic indicators<\/a> that affect people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkowtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11958051\">without stock portfolios<\/a> don&#8217;t seem to indicate that anything is getting better. To anyone paying attention, we&#8217;re in far more danger of total economic collapse than we were two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nick P. at Black Sun Gazette: I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve looked at the news lately, but apparently we&#8217;re in some kind of economic recovery. You&#8217;d probably have to be reading the news to know about it, because no one that I know is experiencing the effects, and economic indicators that affect people without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2M1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761265,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661272\/revisions\/761265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}